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Schools and Education

Published
April 12, 2014

Students, faculty say protests played key role in USM policy reversal

The president says she was not reacting to student protests, but others say they can’t be discounted.
Published
April 11, 2014

USM president reverses faculty layoffs

Theodora Kalikow says she is open to alternative plans for cutting the budget and will still eliminate about 35 staff positions.
Published
April 11, 2014

USM’s Faculty Senate comes up with alternate plan to cut costs

The proposal includes a moratorium on using consultants, consolidating departments and campuses, and making the president, deans and provost teach classes.
Published
April 10, 2014

Colby College president tapped to head National Endowment for the Humanities

Obama’s selection of William Adams still needs Senate confirmation.
Published
April 10, 2014

USM protesters rally in Portland to reject cuts, layoffs

About 200 people gathered to oppose proposed cuts and demand their right to public higher education.

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Published
April 10, 2014

Steve Solloway: Will Westbrook athletic director’s resignation be heard, or go to waste?

Marc Sawyer’s strong words after an athlete-suspension controversy should trigger a change for the better.
Published
April 10, 2014

Portland’s Hall School added to list for new building

The elementary school is one of six schools added to the state’s guaranteed fund list to renovate or rebuild facilities.
Published
April 8, 2014

UMaine law school cuts three library positions

The cuts come in response to a $36 million funding shortfall in the University of Maine System.
Published
April 7, 2014

Faculty cutbacks mobilize USM student movement

USM student organizers have kept up a relentless drumbeat of protests unlike anything in recent memory.
Published
April 5, 2014

Two Bowdoin students resign over drug sales

The pair had been accused of selling prescription drugs to other Bowdoin students.